Walking-stick



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WALKING STICK.

No. 401,061. Patented Apr. 9, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

PAUL PILON AND JOSEPH PLOUDRE, OF VEST QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS.

WALKING-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,061, dated April 9,1889.

Application filed July 16, 1888- To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, PAUL PILON and J0- SEPH PLOUDRE, of the town ofWVest Quincy, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improved Telescoping alking-Stick orCane, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to adapt a walking-stick or cane as areceptacle for a fife, and, with the fife removed, to be telescoped andthus put into compact shape; and to that end this invention consists, insubstance, of a walking-stick or cane made in tubular sections adaptedto telescope each other lengthwise and make a casing, when severallyopened out, to receive a fife and therein to confine it end to end, andto secure the sections against accidental closing, all substantially ashereinafter described.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a sideelevation of the walking-stick with its telescoping sections opened out.Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of Fig. 1, showing a side viewof a fife in the cane-sections. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are horizontalsections, lines 3 3, 4 4, and 5 5, respectively, Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A, B, and 0 represent three tubular sections of awalking-stick or cane adapted, as well known, to telescope one a11-other.

D is the ferrule, and E is the head of the cane, the latter readilyremovable at pleasure, and all as well known.

F is a fife inserted in the tubular sections A and B, crossing theirjointed ends and the jointed ends of sections B C, and confined end toend between the inner end of the head E Serial No. 280,116. (No model.)

of the section A and a fixed head, F of the section 0, said heads E Fpreferably having sockets e f for the entrance and seating of the endsof the fife.

The walking-stick or cane in tubular sections, telescoping, and adaptedto receive a fife and confine it end to end therein, as described,plainly is a most useful and serviceable combination of devices, in thatit enables a fife to be most conveniently stowed away for carriage whennot in use, and when in use it enables the cane to be then closed andmade of a most compact and convenient shape for being put away andcarried.

The fife in the cane, as described, holds the sections in theiropened-out position, and removed leaves sections free to be telescoped.The cane-head E inserted is to be made fast in any suitable manner, andthis may be accomplished by adapting it, and the end of the section toreceive it, to be screwed thehead into and out of or onto and off of thesection.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

A walking-stick in tubular sections telescoping each other, incombination with a fife inserted in and crossing the joints of saidsections, and with rests E F of the sections for the opposite ends ofthe fife, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we have hereuntdset our hands in the presence oftwosubscribing witnesses.

\ PAUL PILON.

JOSEPH PLOUDRE. Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, FRANCES M. BROWN.

